Niccolò Frangipane

The Holy Family with the Infant St John, 1585

Niccolò Frangipane (fl. 1565–97) was an Italian artist.

Life

Frangipane is believed by some to have been a native of Padua, by others of Udine. He flourished from the year 1565 till 1597, and executed a number of church pictures, but was more successful in mythological scenes, particularly the legends of Bacchus. At Padua, in the church of San Bartolommeo, is a fine picture by him of St. Francis, painted in 1588; and at Pesaro, an altar-piece in San Stefano. But his most admired work is an Assumption, in the church of the Conventuali, at Rimini.^[1]

Works

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  Penitent, 1574, now in the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga

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  Pietà, 1593, in the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice

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  The way to the Calvary, now in the City Museum of Rimini

Notes

1. Bryan,1886-9

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "FRANGIPANE, Niccolò" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.